DVD Specs

For those of you who have been wondering about the quality of the DVD release, here are the specs.

Video:
Framerate = 29.97
Bitrate = approx. 8000 kbps

Audio:
Encode = MPEG Layer II
Type = Stereo
Rate = 192 kbps / 48 kHz

Other:
Length = approx. 2 hrs. 15 mins.
Size = approx. 4.36 gb

Some of you familiar with creating DVDs may be wondering how I was able to fit so much without losing quality. The answer is really deceptively simple. Most of the videos are short, probably averaging under three minutes. Those I was able to encode at a higher bitrate around 8500. Longer videos like the Genesis 0:0 documentaries were encoded at a lower bitrate around 7000. Since these documentaries are mostly static and don't have a lot of action you don't need to worry about a loss of picture quality. When it was all finished the data was actually too large to burn to a standard DVD. So, I used DVDShrink to compress the data. Fortunately, there was only a 5% compression, so the quality loss is not noticeable.